Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every North Carolina metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 10 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 2 metro areas, and Wild Olive Salon in 1 metro area. Against their share in North Carolina as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 6 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 4 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
Wilmington, NC 1.1× · Greensboro-High Point, NC 1× · Winston-Salem, NC 1.5× · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC 1.1× · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC 1.7× · Burlington, NC 1.6×
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Sport Clips Haircuts
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Charlotte, NC (NC part) 1× · Raleigh-Cary, NC 1.1× · Asheville, NC 1.3× · Fayetteville, NC 2.2×
Not enough tracked stores: Goldsboro, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Greenville, NC · Jacksonville, NC · Rocky Mount, NC
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Great Clips
#1 in 10 metro areas
Charlotte, NC (NC part) · Raleigh-Cary, NC · Wilmington, NC · Greensboro-High Point, NC · Winston-Salem, NC · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Asheville, NC · Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC · Burlington, NC · Rocky Mount, NC
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Sport Clips Haircuts
#1 in 2 metro areas
Fayetteville, NC · Greenville, NC
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Wild Olive Salon
#1 in Jacksonville, NC
Not enough tracked stores: Goldsboro, NC · Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC · Virginia Beach, VA (NC part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to North Carolina compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in North Carolina as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in North Carolina and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of North Carolina is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in North Carolina. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hair salon chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Blo Blow Dry Bar and Studio M sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Blo Blow Dry Bar | ▲1 | +12.3% |
| 2 | Studio M | ▲1 | +7.6% |
| 3 | Supercuts | - | +7.5% |
| 4 | Great Clips | - | +4.3% |
| 5 | Wild Olive Salon | - | +4.3% |
| 6 | Fantastic Sams | - | +0.6% |
| 7 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -2.2% |
| 8 | Southern Roots | - | -2.2% |
| 9 | SmartStyle | - | -9.2% |
| 10 | Cost Cutters | - | -17.6% |
| 11 | Drybar Shops | ▼2 | -21.0% |
| 12 | Pigtails & Crewcuts | - | -21.3% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Fantastic Sams
- Wild Olive Salon
- Southern Roots
- Supercuts
- Top African Hair Braiding
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,246 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 371 of the 1,246 stores (30%); 762 of the 809 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, the same share as across the United States.
- Great Clips (237)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (72)
- Fantastic Sams (26)
- Wild Olive Salon (3)
- Southern Roots (7)
- Supercuts (14)
- Top African Hair Braiding (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 237
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 72
- 3 Fantastic Sams 26
- 4 SmartStyle 22
- 5 Supercuts 14
- 6 Southern Roots 7
- 7 Sharkey's Cuts for Kids 7
- 8 Studio M 6
- 9 Cost Cutters 5
- 10 Pigtails & Crewcuts 5
- 11 Drybar Shops 4
- 12 Wild Olive Salon 3
- 13 Blo Blow Dry Bar 3
- 14 Tanas Hair Designs & Day Spa 2
- 15 Salon Blu 2
- 16 William Henry Signature Salon 2
- 17 Meraki Salon 2
- 18 impressions 2
- 19 Menagerie Style House 2
- 20 Hair by Jen 2
- 21 Taji Natural Hair Styling 2
- 22 Eclipse Salon 2
- 23 The Hair Gallery 2
- 24 A Cut Above 2
- 25 Von Kekel Aveda Salon & Spa 2
- 26 Moxie 2
- 27 Tangles Salon 2
- 28 Cookie Cutters Haircuts for Kids 2
- 29 Salon G 2
- 30 Jeny dominican beauty salon 1
- 31 Stylehouse Collective 1
- 32 CC & Company Salon and Spa 1
- 33 King Kutz 1
- 34 Annabel's Hair Salon 1
- 35 Pur Salon 1
- 36 Uptown Salon & Blowout Bar 1
- 37 Donald & Company Salon 1
- 38 Syd's Hair Shop 1
- 39 Sheree's Natural Cosmetics 1
- 40 The Color Couture Hair Studio 1
- 41 Hair by Rycke 1
- 42 LuLu Salon 1
- 43 Colonial Barber Shop 1
- 44 Bliss Salon and Spa 1
- 45 Salt Beauty and Wellness 1
- 46 Salisbury Salon & Spa 1
- 47 Creative Shears 1
- 48 Head Mistress 1
- 49 Tame The Mane 1
- 50 Bella Trio Studio 1
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